Introduction of TADE

The goals of this Association are to enhance updated knowledge, build up necessary skills, and integrate with other healthcare professionals to provide the best diabetes care possible.  In addition, with the cooperation of other professional associations to promote health educator and courses review system, we intend to improve diabetes control effect of patients and decrease the occurrence of complications so that the social cost can be retrenched, and patient’s and the family’s quality of life can be improved.

TADE conducts various educational courses, examinations and CDE internship regularly.  Now, we have 3,250 qualified CDE (as of April 2008) through our certification system.  In addition to educate and train CDE, we assist various hospitals and clinics to establish diabetes health care institutions, and continue to implement the appraisal of project by the Department of Health, Executive Yuan.  We hope that we can develop local diabetes education projects.

Taiwanese Association of Diabetes Educators (TADE) was founded in March of 1996.  Professor Juei-Hsiang Lin served as the chairman of first session, Doctor Shih-Tzer Tsai was the chairman of second and third session, Dorctor Wayne Huey-Herng was the chairman of fouth session, and he was relected as the chairman of fifth session (current)

By now, we have 9318 members (as of December 31, 2007), including doctors, nurses, dieticians, social workers etc.

Since foundation of this Association, we had studied, announced and implemented as follows:

    1.   Reward (subsidy) procedures

    2.   Regulations and enforcement governing diabetes educators and     internship 

    3.   Regulations and enforcement governing certification of qualified diabetes educators

    4.   Recognition of continuing education credit procedures

Procedures of certificate extension for health educators